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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Overboard

Here's a poem I had published in the Cirque Literary Journal two years ago. I read this at the Fisher Poets Gathering in February this year, then just recently at the Olympia Poetry Network open mic last Wednesday. It was written for two good friends of mine who are no longer here: Jeff Snyder and Debi Barker. They never knew each other, and died years apart in very different ways. Yet, somehow they are connected together here:

3 comments:

Patricia
said...

We are all connected, aren't we? You to me, and to another and another. Sometimes we meet and realize the connection, other times we pass in the whiff of a smoke detail and never know, but we are connected.

I am a poet and writer of creative non-fiction and fiction. More of my work can be seen at www.IntheTote.com, a site I curate that displays the work of the readers at the annual Fisher Poets Gathering in Astoria, Oregon, where I have performed for the past 17 years. I edited Anchored in Deep Water: The FisherPoets Anthology, a seven-book set of writing celebrating the commercial fishing industry, published in August, 2014.

I write on two blogs, From the Field is about photography and the other, Gillnet Dreams, is about fishing, life on the water, and really, everything else.